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Westminster computing put on size-zero diet
News In September the government announced that during the previous year it had lowered its IT-related carbon footprint by 12,000 tonnes - a cut of just 2.6 per cent of its total computing-related emissions. [13 Nov 2009]
Keeping IT green in tough times
News And in the midst of a recession, with cost cutting a priority, it's easy to let slide worthy targets such as becoming carbon neutral - especially if the choice is between a project to shrink the carbon footprint of IT... [22 Oct 2009]
Supporting a Company's Green Initiatives With Adobe Acrobat: Delivering Sustainable Returns to Organizations Looking to Minimize Their Environmental Footprint
White Paper Increasingly, another critical question is influencing corporate buying decisions - what is the environmental impact of a purchase and are there resulting "Green" benefits? Around the globe, a heightened focus on... [13 Jul 2009]
Making IT Greener: Choosing Windows Server 2008 on Dell
White Paper The growing use of technology to address organizational requirements is causing an expanding data center footprint in many shops. Thanks to the high concentration of energy-gobbling electronics in the data center, IT... [01 Jul 2009]
Examining the Value and Drivers Behind Green IT
White Paper More and more organizations are realizing that Green IT practices not only reduce their carbon footprint and promote environmental conservation, but lead to significant cost savings, greater energy... [01 Apr 2009]
Green IT Survey: Executive Summary
White Paper Growing numbers of U.S.governments are implementing policies and technologies to reduce their carbon footprint while balancing pressures to drive operational efficiencies. Rising energy costs is playing a role in data... [01 Apr 2009]
How IT is helping the NHS save the planet
News IT will play a central role in the NHS' efforts to slash its carbon footprint in the coming years. In the short term, the NHS' aim is to reduce its carbon footprint by 10 per cent between 2007 and 2015. [29 Jan 2009]
Time to green-light sustainable IT
Comment For example, reducing the organisation's travel carbon footprint and costs by investing in high-definition telepresence capabilities reduces the effect on the physical world but increases the need for equipment and... [17 Jul 2008]
'Green' technology can't save us from ourselves
Comment Meanwhile, energy company E.ON UK - which has been ramping up videoconferencing to cut travel as part of a series of initiatives directly aimed at shrinking its carbon footprint - found its air miles... [28 Apr 2008]
E.ON powers down to cut carbon and costs
News But Middleditch said companies seeking to shrink their carbon footprint should not worry about being too fastidious about measuring every last drop of power consumed. Green initiatives... [25 Apr 2008]
Cost-cutting tops CIO priorities
Comment One new issue high among CIO priorities this year is green IT and the need to reduce the power consumption and carbon footprint of IT operations, while web 2.0, software as a service and service-oriented... [18 Apr 2008]
BT CEO Ben Verwaayen to step down
News Verwaayen also gets credit for leading BT's drive to push climate change up the agenda, calling for government action on global warming and presiding over a shrinking corporate carbon footprint at BT through... [08 Apr 2008]
Techies - clueless on climate change?
News Nine out of ten UK IT departments do not know what their carbon footprint is and 56 per cent do not even see their energy bills, research reveals. And only 15 per cent of CIOs said they are planning to calculate their... [04 Dec 2007]
The greening of IT: Why less is more
Comment Much of the contribution you can make to reduce your footprint does not require significant new capital expenditure. There are many initiatives and technologies that will help reduce energy demand within... [13 Aug 2007]
Gartner: IT directors must go green
News The global analyst firm believes few heads of IT are deciding on initiatives to cut their carbon footprint, and will be in for a surprise when business leaders start demanding action on the issue. They... [08 Dec 2006]
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